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A map from the 1770s of the city of Boston and its harbor. The dotted features are mudflats and salt marshes that were exposed at low tide and unnavigable even at high tide. Prior to European colonization the region around modern-day Boston was inhabited by the Indigenous Massachusett people.
Boston Harbor. Coordinates: 42°20′30″N 70°57′58″W. Topographic map of Boston Harbor. USCGC James pulls into Harbor in August 2015. Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, located adjacent to Boston Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the Northeastern United States.
Fort Independence is a granite bastion fort that provided harbor defenses for Boston, Massachusetts, located on Castle Island. Fort Independence is one of the oldest continuously fortified sites of English origin in the United States. [2][3] The first primitive fortification was called "The Castle", placed on the site in 1634.
A Once and Future Shoreline is a permanent public artwork that graphically marks the edge of Boston Harbor, circa 1630, into the granite paving blocks of the plaza on the West side of the historic Faneuil Hall building. [1] The 850-foot-long artwork depicts the location of a pre-colonial shoreline by graphically etching silhouettes of materials ...
Maine. New Hampshire. The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands of the settlement were in southern New England ...
Hingham (/ ˈhɪŋəm / HING-əm) is a town in northern Plymouth County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Part of the Greater Boston region, it is located on the South Shore of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the population was 24,284. [5] Hingham is known for its colonial history and location on Boston Harbor.
A 19th-century fortification built in Boston Harbor, Fort Warren saw service through the First World War. It is named for Dr. Joseph Warren, a Revolutionary War political leader who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill. 22. William Lloyd Garrison House. William Lloyd Garrison House. June 23, 1965. (#66000653)
Castle Island is a peninsula in South Boston on the shore of Boston Harbor. In 1928, Castle Island was connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land and is thus no longer an island. [3] It has been the site of a fortification since 1634, [3] and is currently a 22-acre (8.9 ha) recreation site and the location of Fort Independence.